Leadership Time Management

As a leader, you know that complexity, responsibility, change, and uncertainty come with the job. How you manage uncertainty sends a big ripple through your organization. Learning how “to be” when the answer is unclear may be the most important leadership muscle you need to build. Leadership expert Brenda Reynolds equips you with information, strategies, and real-life examples that will grow your confidence and hone your leadership skills. TBD will help you find power and clarity in the midst of any change.

We relentlessly pursue our self-interests as rational consumers, yet how often do we find lasting happiness or deep satisfaction? An Unselfish Perspective is a self-help book for self-help skeptics. It reveals our cultural assumptions about individuality and how these assumptions shape our perspectives and our world. It will inspire you to rethink your self-improvement goals and reimagine how to build that better you. As your listen, you will come to question your understanding of what self-knowledge is and what authenticity means.

“Leading Healthcare Transformation: Doctors, Nurses, and Managers at the Helm” is an exhaustive analysis of the modern dynamics in the healthcare sector, with a particular emphasis on middle management leadership. It provides a deep dive into the roles, responsibilities, and leadership abilities required by different professionals, including doctors, nurses, and managers.

What if any person who desired to become an awesome boss could be? What if there was a model that every leader could apply to help them be successful? What if there were no more bad bosses in this world? Designed as a leadership fable, this audiobook will help any leader in any situation to be an awesome boss! For Marty, the promotion to CEO was an exciting step in his already very successful young career. However, there was one problem that dampened his enthusiasm.

“Adam was stuck.” And with this simple phrase, The Leader’s Climb introduces the listener to an engaging tale of how leaders often ascend quickly to the top, only to unknowingly slip down a path of decline - until it is too late. In this audiobook's approach to the subject, set against the backdrop of a rock-climbing vacation gone awry, executive coaches Bob Parsanko and Paul Heagen draw from decades of success with business executives to reveal an all-too-familiar path of leadership struggles.

The Stop Doing List gets you off the treadmill of unproductive, frenetic activity and sets you on the path toward growth. Running a business has never been easy, but today's nonstop 24/7/365 world makes moving forward more difficult than ever before. Plenty of resources can show you how to make lists, create schedules, and manage your time, but they all seem to expect your time to be 100 percent devoted to work - not only is that no way to live, it's no way to grow. Instead, try doing less.

Influence is like a super power. If you can move people, then you can move mountains. But sometimes it seems like the only way to gain influence is by becoming someone you’re not - by faking it ‘til you make it. Is it possible to stay authentic AND have more people listen when you speak, buy what you sell, and follow where you lead? Is it possible to be yourself...only better?

Growing up in poverty-stricken rural South Carolina, Tim Mercer wasn’t exactly set up for entrepreneurial success. Despite the odds stacked against him, he would go on to found the technology consulting business Intelibox, growing the company to a multimillion-dollar business. But Bootstrapped Millionaire is not only the true rags-to-riches story of one man’s life; it’s also an inspirational guide to budding entrepreneurs hoping to reach similar heights.

The Backpack: How to Understand and Manage Yourself While Loving Others Along the Way tells the story of Jon, Sofia, and Buddy, whose pathways merge on a life-changing flight. Written by a senior consultant with the Flippen Group (a worldwide leader in self-awareness training), the book brings together an angry passenger, a wise flight attendant, and a down-home cowboy. Their chance meeting leads to the ride of their lives as they fully grasp the importance and meaning of their backpacks. As this engaging story reveals, self-awareness is like a backpack!

Author and ICF-certified Leadership Development Coach Tajan Braithwaite Renderos, ACC, MPH has been coaching individuals to take that next step into management. By offering solid, proven tools and tactics, this book can help anyone transition smoothly into a management role by filling common gaps in knowledge that can hold people back.

Stadium status is that elusive place every coach, athlete, entertainer, and performer strives to reach. It's moving from being an opening act to the headliner, from performing on a small stage to the greatest stage in the largest venue possible: a sold out stadium. Everything starts from humble beginnings; talent and work ethic might get you in the game, but stadium status takes strategy - and that starts with a vision.

Time has become a precious commodity, so business leaders who can save their customers’ time more effectively than competitors do will win their loyalty. To become a real-time company, as top scholars Jerry Power and Tom Ferratt explain, you need a real-time monitoring and response system. They offer detailed advice on how to put procedures in place that will collect data on how well products or services are saving customer time; identify strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities; and specify innovations needed to save even more customer time.

The economy has made major leaps in the past decade. Have you made the leap along with it? Work is different for this new generation than it was in the past. Long-term careers are on the way out, and "gigs" - part-time, contract, or freelance work - are becoming more common. Whether you're in the midst of a career or just getting started, now is the time to prepare for changes headed your way.

Pitching is about persuasion: radiating positivity, controlling the situation, winning an audience's trust, creating "fierce agreement", and getting them to want to give you what you're asking for. Written not just for a business audience, You Get What You Pitch For will approach the pitch as what it really is: a methodology for building productive, positive, mutually beneficial person-to-person interactions.

You negotiate every day in everything you do: vacation time, work duties, even child care. Yet you probably have never had a course in how to negotiate effectively. Often, we are afraid of negotiating because we think it will strain or kill relationships. But negotiation doesn’t have to be a win-loss game. You can strike a deal good for everyone. The skill lies in negotiating in a way that relationships can be built, developed and maintained. This is the first book ever written on how to combine negotiation with psychology to get the outcome you want.

Smart Time Investment for Business provides 128 short, sharp, and practical productivity strategies that you can start implementing today for immediate results, punctuated with tips and anecdotes from leading business people from around the world who share how they use time to their advantage. Your time is not limitless. Your time is a finite and enormously valuable resource - and, just like your money, if you want to grow your wealth and your success you must invest your time wisely.

Effectiveness, Stack says, is identifying and achieving the best objectives for your organization - doing the right things. Efficiency is accomplishing them in the least amount of time, with the least effort and cost - doing things right. If you're not clear on both, you're wasting your time. As Drucker put it, "There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all." Stack's 3T Leadership offers 12 practices that will enable executives to be effective and efficient, grouped into three areas where leaders spend their time.

An expert guide for senior executives who want to quickly understand what really matters in digital business and what it takes to win. Today’s technology demands lightning-fast changes. But speed without purpose is not progress. In Fast Times, McKinsey leaders cut through the hype to provide a listenable inside look into what digital winners do best: set direction, learn, and adapt faster than anyone else.

Marketers, technologists, and corporate leaders are looking for ways to more effectively connect consumers with their brand. Storyscapes introduces "storyscaping" as a way to create immersive experiences that solve the challenge of connecting brands and consumers. This book describes a powerful new approach to advertising and marketing for the digital age that involves using stories to design emotional and transactional experiences for customers, both online and offline.

Every generation reaches a point of rude awakening where what is demanded of us is more than what is given us. What we’ve been prepared for isn’t what we’re facing. What we’ve been taught is the good life really isn’t. Jerome Daley points us to ancient wisdom that long ago exposed the limits of celebrity and achievement cults: the monastic tradition. It offers not only meaning and a critique of values antithetical to a good life, but also ways of living and leading that will fill you up and dramatically increase your impact. Your leadership is meant for more; Gravitas will help you find the path.